I'm a big fan of geeky TV shows.  Whenever I look through the various garbage that's regularly on TV, I usually stop at things like Modern Marvels, Engineering Disasters, MythBusters, and CSI.  My dad used to watch "learning" shows on the Discovery Channel and History Channel, and I used to hate it.  But now I'm totally into learning shows.  It might have something to do with studying engineering in college, but it might not, seeing that many people who study engineering don't have much interest in it after college (i.e. Wendy, Kripa). 

I have a slight problem with the commercials on the Discovery Channel.  I've noticed that they show the same 3 commercials during every commercial break.  And the weird part is that 2 of the 3 commercials are for other shows on the Discovery Channel, so I'm assuming no money is being made or exchanged in the process.  I'm not sure how that works, but as long as there are new episodes of MythBusters, I'm ok with it. 

Some people may argue that CSI isn't really a geek show.  I could agree with that.  But I think I watch it from a geek perspective.  I like seeing the cool tools they use to solve crimes and the lab techniques they use to test out their hypotheses.  A recent addition to my geeky crime-solving shows is Numb3rs, which is probably the geekiest show on TV.  It's interesting to see the math and physics they use to solve crimes.  But I'm always a little skeptical of certain magic tricks that seem to give all the answers with little to no effort.  One of the things that always sticks out to me is when people are viewing camera footage and they say, "Enhance that part".  This is a myth; it doesn't actually work that way.  Sure, cameras can zoom in, but cameras generally don't record things in extreme detail.  That would take too much power and digital storage space.  And digital zoom doesn't make things clearer; it makes a tiny blob into a bigger blob (you can't get more information from the same amount of pixels).  But hey, it's TV.  If they keep showing it, I'll probably keep watching it. #entertainment